An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: Meta told employees on Monday that it was reassigning 7,000 workers to focus on new initiatives around artificial intelligence, the latest change in a company...
A while back I wrote about the linear rate limit algorithms leaky bucket and GCRA. Since then I have been vexed by how common it is to implement rate limiting using complicated and wasteful algorithms ( for example )...
Earlier this month, a group of high-profile publishers, including Penguin Random House, Elsevier, and HarperCollins, asked a federal court in New York for a broad default judgment against Anna’s Archive. The publishers...
Google I/O is always like a little amateur dramatics show, but this year the company could have boasted about making Apple rely on its Gemini. It just totally failed to do so. Today the word "claptrap" is used to mean...
{'text': 'James Daunt, the CEO of Barnes & Noble, has declared that he has “no problem” with AI-written books being sold in the retailer’s stores.'} {'text': 'In a recent segment for NBC News’ “Business in America”...
{'text': 'Reporter Dion Lim, speaking at a conference in 2018 (Photo by Miikka Skaffari/Getty Images)'} {'text': 'Over at X, Garry Tan, the president and CEO of the venture capital firm Y Combinator, put up a long post...
2026-04-17 Let's talk about AI slop Is it the end of open source we know and love? Written by Ildar Iskhakov, CTO The End of Open Source as We Know It When a few months ago GitHub shared statistics about celebrating an...
Got Haiku booting in UTM with some small fixes. Mouse movement is slow and choppy though, so it’s not especially fun to use Are nightly images "Bootstrap image"s or “unbootstrapped” ones from? I want to know how can I...
RISC-V support for floating-point arithmetic is a topic we have partially covered in a few previous posts but we felt like it deserves a full overview post of its own. RISC-V base ISA (RV32I or RV64I) does not define...
Learnings from 100K Lines of Rust with AI In the past few months, I’ve been stress-testing how far AI coding agents can take us when building real, production-grade distributed systems. The result: a Rust-based...
Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk apparently used AI to write her latest novel. Update: On Tuesday afternoon, Tokarczuk sent a statement to Lit Hub via her publisher, Riverhead, denying she used AI in her writing for...
The era of the “ten blue links” is officially over. Google unveiled on Tuesday an AI-powered overhaul of Search centered around a reimagined “intelligent search box” — what the company describes as the biggest change to...
Commencement speakers have been booed for their advice on AI, revealing a backlash against the tech. Some Gen Zers' excitement about AI has declined, with a recent survey showing rising anger. AI anxiety is affecting...
Dutch organizations demand that Meta stop blocking LGBTQIA+ accounts Bits of Freedom, COC Nederland, and several other organizations sent a joint letter to Meta on Wednesday demanding that the company’s social media...
Wheeled vehicles existed for 5,000 years before someone thought of running a bus service. Buses do not seem like the sort of thing that needed to be invented. Anyone can see that the wheel needed to be invented, and...
I have seen various takes that beginners can still learn from CTFs as they always have. These takes miss the scoreboard. CTFs were not just a set of puzzles. They were a ladder. Even as a beginner, you had something to...
I previously discussed how the main codebase at Google enforces strict tooling and conventions to allow the codebase to scale. For many years, there was one glaring exception: the IDE. Context: I worked at Google from...
Hey everyone, Today we’re announcing an important pricing update. Starting July 1, 2026, the price of a new Lifetime Plex Pass will increase to $749.99 USD. When Plex first started, we were movie and TV fans who wanted...
Current exercise guidelines are too low, suggest researchers Less fit individuals need to do more exercise to get the same benefits Adults should aim to do between 560 and 610 minutes a week of moderate to vigorous...
The articles from these past couple of weeks kinda burned me out. After wrapping it up, I decided I was going to take it easy, do something simple and brainless in a nice comfy high-level language, and just not worry...
X (formerly Twitter) is back to its old tricks again when it comes to verifications. In an effort to get more free accounts to shift to the paid version of the social media platform, it has surreptitiously announced...
In May 2026, the TanStack/router repository was compromised through its GitHub Actions CI pipeline. An attacker submitted a fork pull request that triggered pullrequesttarget workflows, poisoned the Actions cache across...
Distill Differentiable Model of Morphogenesis Most multicellular organisms begin their life as a single egg cell - a single cell whose progeny reliably self-assemble into highly complex anatomies with many organs and...
Plex's lifetime subscription cost is tripling to $750 The premium plan’s price is scheduled to increase on June 30, 8:01PM ET. Plex, the streaming service and app that lets you create your own personal media streaming...
A Pizza Hut franchisee alleged in a lawsuit that the chain's AI system damaged its business. - The suit alleges that the system led to delays and cratering sales at over 100 restaurants. - The franchisee, Chaac Pizza...
Nostalgic Kits Central General Info The era of electronic kits started (with a few minor exceptions like Stancor) after the end of WWII. In 1947, Heath offered its first kit, a 5 inch oscilloscope. Heath rapidly grew...
There’s No Earthly Way of Knowing Which Direction We Are Going… Book on Truth in the Age of A. I. Contains Quotes Made Up by A. I.: The author of a nonfiction book about the effects of artificial intelligence on truth...
Testing MiniMax M2.7 via API on three real ML and coding workflows I recently got access to some MiniMax M2.7 API credits, so I decided to plug this model directly into Claude Code and run it on three workflows I do...
Dashboard (railway.com) Login - GitHub Login - Google DNS Traffic Build Machines (GCP) Image Registry (GCP) TCP Proxy (GCP) Southeast Asia (GCP / Singapore) US East (GCP / Virginia, USA) US West (GCP / Oregon, USA) EU...
So intense is the heat that by 10 every morning, Banda shuts down. Lakhan Gupta, a jeweller in Attara town, leaves home at 6am to finish most of his work before the heat settles. By 9, he is back. By 10, the road...
Home Exhibits About Guestbook Contact News & Press MIMI: The Book Singing Statues Polyharp Snare Drums Reimagined The Cat Piano Android Orpheus A Steam Concert The Ship Who Sang Personal Music Device and Instrument...
Every parent who cares about classic books for kids eventually makes a list. Maybe it starts on a napkin at the library, or in the notes app at 11 p.m. after the children are finally asleep. You write down the books you...
Look at the left image. That's 1877. The darkest red represents ocean temperatures so far above average that the resulting famine killed 3-4% of the entire global population. The right image is May 2026. This is not a...
The printing workshop was the beating heart of the business. In Christoffel Plantin’s own time (around 1575), at least sixteen presses were in operation. The print shop employed 56 people and was, at that time, the...
The TTY demystified Real teletypes in the 1940s. The TTY subsystem is central to the design of Linux, and UNIX in general. Unfortunately, its importance is often overlooked, and it is difficult to find good introductory...
What is co-packaged optics (CPO)? Co-packaged optics integrates the optical engine â InP laser, silicon photonics chiplet, modulators, and photodetectors â directly into the same package as the switch ASIC or AI...